Abolition in Practice Group : What’s the Body got to do with it?

This is a free, monthly, online, peer-led space for Black People and People of Colour * collectively working toward mental health justice, racial justice, and abolition—whether through activism, advocacy, peer support, or community care. Grounded in intentional peer support principles, it’s a space for connection, reflection, and learning outside of harmful systems. 

The theme of this workshop is: Somatic abolitionism, decolonizing ‘wellness’, embodied social justice and the body as a resource as well as locus of trauma  

Main resources: A Therapist Breaks Down How Our Bodies Carry Racial Trauma (video) 

Optional resources: My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem , Liberated to the Bone: Histories. Bodies. Futures by Susan Raffo ; What is Social Justice Somatics?; Anchoring Resilience Workshop by Lumos Transforms